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Spectrum Protect (Server)

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Spectrum Protect upgrade - pre-requiste failures

Can the pre-req checking during the install/upgrade actually check EVEYTHING before starting the install process?
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

File Type retention storage pool

Only Tape class is supported as Retention Pool however many customer that has NAS appliance as secondary backup storage instead of Tape like to use retention set with a copy to secondary storage.
almost 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Lanfree Backup to COS/S3/Blob Storage

Enable Lan free backup support for Multi Cloud. Allow nondedup container pool.
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

target server for replicate node

Protect should allow replicating some nodes to one target server, and other nodes to a second target server.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect should support Linux GFS2 filesystem

GFS2 is the standard filesystem used by Red Hat clusters for concurrent storage. It's in the same class of filesystem storage as GPFS (Spectrum Scale)
over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Add maximum parallel sessions for NDMP backups

Limit the number of parallel backup sessions for NDMP backups of NetApp (or any other) NAS node.
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

DELETE FILESPACE FROM STORAGE POOL (ESPECIALLY COPY)

Allow DELETE FILESPACE to specify a storage pool. i.e. delete filespace <nodename> <filespace> stgpool=<stgpool>
over 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Simultaneous-write CMOD / Dual Copy on Archive Spectrum Protect Server

Currently we have the API Client in use for storing ARCHIVE Object on Spectrum Protect Server as archive object. During normal operation we defined on Storage Pool level simultaneous-write on all. We found a lack on functionality, when these CopyP...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SnapDiff backup for volumes mounted to a junction point

NetApp's best practice recommends that volumes on a svm should be mounted to some junctions points not to the root volume (/). The result is that people cannot backup the FlexVols using SnapDiff. I understand APAR IT11729 has a fix for volumes mou...
almost 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect on LinuxOne with RHEL 8.x

LinuxOne is proposing for Oracle database consolidation, Spectrum Protect is a key component to provide data backup and recovery. The compatibility of Spectrum Protect on LinuxOne with RHEL 8.x is essential for the proposal.
almost 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 4 Planned for future release

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